I find that looking at how other faiths treat certain life moments helps me reflect on my own faith as well as expands and makes my religious practice more dynamic. In this case, Lauren Winner ended up doing the same as she converted from Orthodox Judaism to Protestant Christianity. In “Mudhouse Sabbath,” she reflects on how certain life events as peaches by Jews could enrich the practice of Christians. I found this idea intriguing and while I appreciated the over-arching approach she took in the […]
Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]
Not Very Big Love
I wanted to categorize this as Horror but decided to stick with Religion. This is a pretty intense story. If you are sensitive to stories involving sexual assault, particularly when children are involved, I would suggest to pass over it. There is a happy ending though since most of these fuckers received decades long prison sentences. Rebecca Musser was born into the FDLS church. She was the daughter of a second (or “Celestial”) wife and her father’s first wife physically and emotionally abused the children […]
We need a new category for Mystery-Love Story-Religious Thrillers
The Wonder brings so many of my favourite elements together – a mystery, faith, a love story, and Ireland. It basically hit all the right notes for me. Anna is a young Irish girl, who is gaining fame for being able to live without eating for weeks. Lib, an English nurse and self-proclaimed skeptic, is hired to observe and substantiate the claims that this is an honest-to-goodness miracle. Tensions develop between Lib and Anna’s family, as well as members of the community, as she tries […]
When God Gets Lost in Translation
“The Grammar of God” by Aviya Kushner is Ms. Kushner’s experience reading the Bible in English for the first time. Ms. Kushner isn’t an immigrant, in face she’s from New York, but until she began graduate school she had never read the Bible in a language other than Hebrew. When she begins her class on the English Bible, she learns, from the very first verse in Genesis, that the experience of reading the Bible in English is not the same as she has experienced the […]
A for Method, D for Conclusions
Have you ever respected someone for their method but disagreed with their conclusions? That’s how I felt toward Rob Bell in this book. As a practicing Christian, and one who’s interested in the Bible as a book and a source of inspiration, I’m interested to learn more about it. Too many times the Bible has been hijacked by fundamentalists who ignore literary, historical, and social contexts in order to prove a point. Personally, I don’t believe this is how it should be used, nor was […]
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